The Adélie Penguin is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast, which is their only residence. They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds, as are the Emperor Penguin, the South Polar Skua, the Wilson's Storm Petrel, the Snow Petrel, and the Antarctic Petrel. In 1840, French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife, Adélie. There are estimated to be a total of 2.4-3.2 million breeding pairs of Adélie penguins; they are distributed around t ...

Gentoo Penguin colony at Chilean research station, Antarctic PeninsulaGentoo Penguins are mostly monogamous. Breeding colonies are made up of hundreds of birds and are usually located a couple of kilometers from the sea.

Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis Antarcticus), Antarctic PeninsulaThe small Chinstrap penguin forages near the shore for small crustaceans, krill and fish and they use strong flippers and feet to crawl or jump up steep slopes.
Unlike other Penguins here, the Chinstrap Penguin does ...

By Peter Prokosch

Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis Papua), Antarctic PeninsulaGentoo Penguins lay a couple of eggs but if food is in short supply once the eggs have hatched, one chick is often sacrificed in order to feed the stronger of the two.

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Adélie Penguin feeding young, Antarctic PeninsulaAdélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent....

By Peter Prokosch

Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua), Gerlache Strait, Antarctic PeninsularGentoo penguins breed on many sub-Antarctic islands. The main colonies are on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Kerguelen Islands; smaller populations are found on Macquarie Island, Heard Islands, South Shetland Is...

By Peter Prokosch

Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) , Gerlache Strait, Antarctic PeninsularGentoo penguins breed on many sub-Antarctic islands. The main colonies are on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Kerguelen Islands; smaller populations are found on Macquarie Island, Heard Islands, South Shetland Is...

By Peter Prokosch

Whale bones on the beach, Antarctic PeninsulaThere are 8 species of whale in the Southern Oceans surrounding Antarctica, including the blue whale, humpback whale, minke, orca and sperm whales. All Antarctic whale species migrate southwards to the Southern Oceans to...